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...Ways and Means Committee, which not only writes tax law but also oversees trade policy and is responsible for the nearly half of the federal budget that goes toward Social Security, Medicare and means-tested entitlements. Complicating the matter for House Democratic leaders is the lack of an obvious successor for Rangel at this time of economic turmoil. The next in line for the post by seniority is California Congressman Pete Stark, one of the most liberal and hotheaded members of Congress. He has been known to challenge other members of the committee to fight him and once called...
...Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements released 28 new reports last Sunday that will “offer a blueprint and information” to countries debating a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that has been widely panned as ineffective...
...becoming "Democrat lite. We can't just 'get along.'" Despite his disdain for Washington, the Senate would at least "give Jeb a bully pulpit," says a friend. That could help him keep his party from falling too far into the centrist, bipartisan hands of new Republican leaders like his successor, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who last month hosted a GOP governors conference in Bush's home city of Miami, where that more pragmatic politics was trumpeted. Even if Bush doesn't run, "considering it" at least sends the signal that after two years ensconced in private family life...
...Aznar government and its Socialist successor have long claimed ignorance of these military flights to Guantanamo, believed to number 13. On the day of the first El Pais story, current foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told the press that he had had "no knowledge of the report" prior to its publication, and called for an internal investigation to locate any other related documents. "Our government is committed to the defense of human rights," Moratinos said. "We have nothing to hide...
...what is the alternative? The buzz among the delegates is the idea that it is possible to know the reincarnation of a senior lama while he is still alive. The Dalai Lama mentioned it recently, stirring up hopes that he would name a direct successor, as well as a fair bit of theological head-scratching. "It's something about the body, mind and spirit being split in two," one delegate told...